My summary of Postman's Technopoly

Summary of Technopoly

Project 2: The Virtual Communities Project

Here's the assignment for your second project:
WRIT 1133 - Project 2

Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, chapters 2 and 9

For class on Thursday, April 15, please read, summarize, and evaluate the main lines of argument in these two chapters from Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community:


Chapter Two: Daily Life in Cyberspace
Chapter Nine: Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists

Each summary should be two paragraphs in length.  In the first paragraph, summarize the main lines of argument; in the second, identify and explain what you believe to be the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments.

Please email your paragraphs to me by the start of class on Thursday.